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Nationality
  
American

Known for
  
Photography

Education
  
Tuskegee University

Role
  
Jr.

Name
  
Chester Jr.


Chester Higgins, Jr. THE OTHER SIDE OF FEAR IS FREEDOM FREEDOM OR EVERYBODY DIES

Born
  
1946 (age 69–70)
Lexington, Kentucky, U.S.

Books
  
Feeling the spirit, Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging

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Chester Higgins Jr. (born November 1946) is an American photographer.

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Life and work

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Higgins was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and grew up in New Brockton, Alabama. He attended Tuskegee Institute (now Tuskegee University), where he was mentored by the school's official photographer, P. H. Polk, and graduated in 1970 with a bachelor's degree in business management. Higgins worked as a New York Times photographer since 1975 and exhibited in museums throughout the world.

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Higgin's work is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art and has been included in numerous book collections and appeared in publications such as Newsweek, Fortune, Look, Essence and Life.

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In Before Genesis, Higgins narrates the story of the African beginnings of spirituality, antecedents of the Biblical world along the River Nile from the 6,000-foot high mountains of Kush (modern-day Ethiopia) through Nubia (Sudan) down to the ancient land of Kemet (Egypt).

He is represented by the Peter Fetterman Gallery of Santa Monica, California.

Published books

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  • with Fisher, Marjorie M; Lacovara, Peter; Ikram, Salima; D'Auria, Sue H. Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile. American University Press Cairo, October 2012.
  • with Betsy Kissam. Echo of the Spirit: A Photographer’s Journey, New York: Doubleday, October 2004. .
  • with Betsy Kissam. Elder Grace: The Nobility of Aging, Boston: Bulfinch Press, November 2000.
  • Feeling The Spirit: Searching the World for the People of Africa, New York: Bantam Books, 1994. A portrait of the African Diaspora.
  • with Coombs, Orde, Some Time Ago, New York: Doubleday/Anchor Press, 1980. A historical portrait of blacks in the United States between 1850 and 1950.
  • with Coombs, Orde, Drums of Life, New York: Doubleday/Anchor Press. A portrait of the universality of men and the uniqueness of being black in the 1970s.
  • with McDougall, Harold, Black Woman, New York: McCalls Publishing, 1970. A portrait of the universality of women and the uniqueness of being black during the 1960s.
  • with Machobane, Burns, Student Unrest at Tuskegee Institute: A Chronology, Behavioral Science Research Institute, Tuskegee University, Alabama, 1968. An academic community in conflict and its resolution.

    • Chester Higgins, Jr. Chester Higgins Jrs Fine Art Photography Elder Grace Gallery

    References

    Chester Higgins, Jr. Wikipedia
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